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• Another vote for nuclear power - Tom Brosz - 5/13/2005 3:52:35 AM
  • And some more votes... - Tom Brosz - 5/14/2005 9:17:11 PM
    • so much for the stereotyping here at HZ (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 5/15/2005 3:23:05 AM
  • Forget Yucca Mountain: use the former nuke test sites for radioactive waste storage! - Jacob Samorodin - 5/14/2005 3:17:59 PM
  • re: advanatge nuclear power - dwh - 5/13/2005 2:54:02 PM
    • Sierra Club - Gary - 5/13/2005 3:41:15 PM
      • I'm not convinced that nuclear fusion will reduce the amount of radioactive waste produced versus conventional fission powerplants - SDF - 5/14/2005 3:04:58 PM
        • Even a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction produces much less radioactive material than fission - Gary - 5/14/2005 4:21:14 PM
          • Actually the fusion reactor chamber remains dangerously radiactive for 100 years - SDF - 5/15/2005 1:00:35 PM
            • Don't be stupid... - Adam - 5/15/2005 2:15:42 PM
              • I'm not being stupid, short-lived vs. long-lived isotopes is a pointless arguement when they are gradually accumulating in larger and larger amounts. (n/t) - SDF - 5/15/2005 3:36:29 PM
        • add: when the oil runs out, nuclear power won't keep your car running - SDF - 5/14/2005 3:19:25 PM
          • Nuclear power can run your car - SDG - 5/14/2005 4:15:28 PM
            • Short answer: if you have enough electrical power, you can do pretty much anything. - Tom Brosz - 5/14/2005 6:41:22 PM
              • Obvious question: How expensive is an electric car now? - SDF - 5/15/2005 3:57:32 PM
                • Pure electric cars are not economical - Gary - 5/15/2005 4:05:42 PM
                  • Wait for it. - Tom Brosz - 5/15/2005 8:31:39 PM
                    • 200 km per charge... - Adam - 5/15/2005 10:06:36 PM
                      • Your warranty - Tom Brosz - 5/16/2005 5:13:27 AM
                        • You nailed it - Gary - 5/16/2005 5:50:06 AM
              • Hydrocarbons have better uses - Gary - 5/14/2005 11:17:13 PM
                • Money has better uses. - SDF - 5/15/2005 1:03:52 PM
                  • re: Money has better uses. - SDG - 5/16/2005 2:54:49 PM
                    • People will move and lifestyles will change if oil runs out. - Scott Evil - 5/16/2005 4:11:45 PM
                      • Californian metropolitan areas assume cheap gasoline - Gary - 5/17/2005 3:58:35 PM
                        • Why doesn't some enterprising individual buy up the empty office space - Scott Evil - 5/18/2005 2:09:49 PM
                  • Fossil fuel economics are bogus - Gary - 5/15/2005 3:59:43 PM
                    • So when the new oil runs out.... reminiscent of a pyramid scheme! lol (n/t) - SDF - 5/16/2005 12:35:07 PM
                      • Isn't that what Kyoto Accord was about? Assigning a monetary value to GHG emissions so they could be accounted as an internal business expense? - SDF - 5/16/2005 12:49:59 PM
                        • I hear CO2 credits are going for about $20 a ton in Europe. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/17/2005 4:12:39 AM
      • I had a similair voew toward Greenpeace at one time. - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 8:32:47 PM
  • We must have it... - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 2:48:43 PM
  • I'm not convinced that carbon emissions will lead to global warming - SDF - 5/13/2005 5:24:04 AM
    • Nuclear will still be a good idea, global warming or not. - Tom Brosz - 5/13/2005 6:43:55 AM
      • I'm not convinced that nuclear is a good idea - SDF - 5/13/2005 7:18:46 AM
        • Bio-fuels need to be pushed but the greens hate them because they still emit CO2 - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 3:00:53 PM
          • re: Bio-fuels need to be pushed but the greens hate them because they still emit CO2 - Ehhhhhhh - 6/2/2005 3:36:26 PM
          • Throw away your technology and return to nature! - ljk - 5/13/2005 4:21:59 PM
          • re: population culling....... - dwh - 5/13/2005 4:19:04 PM
            • How practical is dumping nuke waste into the Sun? - ljk - 5/13/2005 5:04:10 PM
              • That's actually a trick question - Gary - 5/14/2005 4:16:22 AM
              • Bury the waste on the Moon or some other planetary body. - Lee - 5/14/2005 2:40:15 AM
                • Good Lord, didn't you see Space: 1999?! - LJK - 5/14/2005 10:20:49 PM
                  • If it'll give us eagles, I say we go for it. - Lee - 5/15/2005 2:08:08 AM
              • Negative factors include... - Larry J - 5/13/2005 6:37:11 PM
                • You're all working too hard on this. - Tom Brosz - 5/14/2005 5:03:12 AM
                  • It's one job the U.N. could do. - Lee - 5/14/2005 5:31:22 AM
          • Most sensible environmentalists know the difference. - Tom Brosz - 5/13/2005 3:53:06 PM
            • Teasing out the oversimplification - pwokenyaw - 5/13/2005 6:17:31 PM
              • Nuclear subsidy - Gary - 5/14/2005 4:14:38 PM
                • Gotta disagree about V-1s verses V-2s - Larry J - 5/15/2005 2:32:50 AM
                  • Saturating British defense - Gary - 5/15/2005 4:27:09 PM
                    • I don't know - the British had a lot of anti-aircraft guns on the coasts... - Larry J - 5/16/2005 6:30:39 PM
                • state of technology determined by government subsidies - pwokenyaw - 5/15/2005 1:23:13 AM
              • Conservation is important, but it doesn't answer the mail - Larry J - 5/13/2005 6:47:12 PM
                • can the build windmills that aren't so ugly? - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 8:25:12 PM
                  • re: windmills?? - dwh - 5/13/2005 8:47:55 PM
                    • re: windmills?? - pwokenyaw - 5/13/2005 10:10:58 PM
                      • Why don't they put more blades and then add a variable transmission so that the blades spin slower, while producing more electricity? - Scott Evil - 5/16/2005 3:33:24 PM
                        • More blades doesn't necessarily mean more energy... - Larry J - 5/17/2005 1:56:43 PM
                      • re: windmills?? Siting issues - p - 5/14/2005 3:49:04 PM
                        • re: windmills?? Siting issues....you bet - dwh - 5/16/2005 7:58:50 PM
                  • Ditto for photovoltaic cells. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 5/13/2005 8:25:56 PM